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The study is an attempt to explore the issue of ethnicism in Afghanistan with reference to Khaled Hosseini‘s (2003)The Kite Runner which is a rich source of the constructed ethnicism between a group o] the so-called extremist Pa.shtuns,i.e. the Taliban and a group of the Hazaras. The novel under study is a historical and political depiction of the past of Afghanistan and its natives. The ethnicist and exclusionary practices and
encounters between major characters are viewed from the perspective of critical discourse studies. Moreover, it systematically applies Norman Fairclough ’s (1989, 1995, 2018) critical discourse analysis as a theory and a research method on the selected data for analyzing the issue under study. As a novel is more or less fictitious and constructed work, so the discourse-producer and
his stance regarding the constructed ethnicism are challengeable. The study not only unveils the Taliban's ethnicist mindset and practices that targeted and harmed the Hazaras severelv, but also exposes the way the discourse-producer has manipulated language and some historical events of ethnicism for building a certain image of the Taliban as character.s into the readers’ minds. The
issue of ethnicism exists iti almost all the ethnic groups of Afghani.stan with varying inten.cities, and choositig the extremist Pashtuns, like the Taliban, as ethnicists and exclusionists, and sidelining or ignoring the other ethnic groups' ethnicism raise a que.stion mark at the discourse-producer’s realistic and unbiased depiction of the Taliban.
Rab Nawaz Khan, Abdul Waheed Qureshi. (2019) A Study of Ethnicism in Afghanistan in Light of “T/ieZfiie Runner”, , Volume 14, Issue 4.
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